Ticket dispensing apparatus



Se t. v p 1927 J. M. FERNANDEZ TICKET DISPENSING APPARATUS Filed Aug. 10, 1,9g5 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR JOHNM.FBRNAJVDEZE BY W76 ATTORNEYS Patented Sept. 6, 1927..

. UNITED s re res 1,641,884 EPATENT or ce.-

JOHN M. FERNANDEZ, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

TICKET-DISPENSING APPARATUS.

Application filed August 10, 1925. Serial No. 49,470.

This invention relates to apparatuses for dispensing tickets such as are dispensed in )ublic places suchas restaurants.

The prime object of the presentinvention r is the production of an apparatus which at a time are removed by grasping the short portion of each ticket, which will be disposed in a manner permitting the same to be grasped by virtue of means adjacentthe opening. I i

' Another object of the invention is the production of a ticket dispensing devicehaving the characteristics mentioned, which will be comparatively inexpensive, reliable in operation, and which will accommodate tickets of different sizes as to width, and which 39 will be comparatively simple of construction. I With the foregoing, other objects of the invention will appear from the embodiment of the invention, which, byway of example as is described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: I. v I

Figure 1 is a perspective view-of the dispensing device of the apparatus of the eu present invention.

F'g. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view through the device shown in Fig. 1 and taken substantially on the line 22 of Fi 3. y

4 Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially on theline 38 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional elevation showing the means employed for preventing retrograde movement of the means employed 5 for continuously acting on the stack of tickets. 1 1 W Fig. ,5 is a perspective view of one of the adjustable side plates of the magazine.

,Fig. 6 is afragmentary view of the hot- 66 tom of the magazine and adjacent portions of'the casing showing a detail of the means employed forholding the follower.

Fig. 7 is a plan view ofa device employed for folding the tickets.

Fig. 8 is a detail sectional view taken substantially on the line 88 of Fig. 7.

The apparatus of the present invention essentially consists of two devices, a device 10 for foldingthe tickets anda device 11 containing the tickets in their folded condition for the dispensing thereof.

Since it. is necessary to take ordinary tickets of oblong shape having theusual index number, amount of purchase numbers and the name of the particular restaurant, and fold each of the tickets with a similar fold,'the device 10 will be described first.

The said device 10 includes a base 12, end

members 13 and. 14, and a side member 15. The end member'18 and side member 15 in the present instance consists of a single piece of material which ,is attached in any suitable manner to the base 12. The end member 14 includes a part 16 having slots 17 therein which respectively accommodate studs 18, each of the studs having threaded thereon a nut 19. By virtue of the slots 17, studs 18 andnuts 19, the end member 14 can bev adjusted with respect to the end member 13 to accommodate therebetwcen tickets, such as the tickets T, of different lengths. The side member 15 terminates betweenthe end members 13 and 14, as shown most clearly invFig. ,7. By grasping the bunchof tickets with the lefthand and by taking hold of three or more tickets with twofingers and thumb of the right hand. the tickets grasped may be bent against the eclge'20 of the. side member 15. This manner of. bendingthe tickets will provide each with a long portion 21 and a short portion 22,and-. at this time attention is called to .the factfthat' each. of the tickets is inherently flexible, the reason therefor will appear hereinafter. Inorder to prevent the tickets being'folded frommoving upwardly, there is provided a member 23 which is carried, by abolt 24. The bolt 24 extendsthrough a slot 25 in an extension 26 on-the side member 15. A nut 27 serves for maintaining the .-member-se t in different positions, according to the width of the tickets being folded,

The device 11in which the tickets are maintained "in stack formation and from which. the ticketsare removed one at a time,

in the present embodiment, consists of the parts and functions in the manner; presently to be'desc'ribed. The device includes a casing consisting of sides 31, a front 32, back 33, and bottom sections 34 which extend inwardly respectively fr'O'r'n'the' sides 31. -In the present instance the casing--3Q"through its longitudinal axis is of triangular shape and the sections 3e are arcuate. 'Provid'ed interi' orly of the casing 30 is a ticket magazine 35 which consists of a top" 36' in the nature of a segment; side member '37, and a bottom meni- 'ber"38. Thetop 36i's movable owingtothe manner in which it is' su orted, -'whi.cl1 'will be explained. Each of the side members 37 is arcuate andi-s :tormed-tm'provide a' fian'ge -39and'wings {l0 and Q1 respectifiely at the opposite end. The-'wing '40 is provided" with a slot42, andthewing llis provided "with -a 'slot43. Each si'de member '37 "te se-cured in place by the 'use 'of fastening 'elenients "such "as screw bolts 4 iiind "which pass "through the slots 42 and 43"resp'ectiveiy th screw bolt 44 "entering "holes in the front 32*and the screw bolts 443 entering holes in 'the back 33'of'the casing. It will nowbe understood that the *side members '37 are adjustable *with respect to each other to arcomm'o'd'ate therebetween tickets of difiereiit 'widths. The bottom 'member 38 is arcuate "*an'd is'hingedly"connected as at 6 atone end, is arranged between the botto members3 l, and thebpp'osite end is' detachably held by'thenseof a turnab'le member 47 order to aid in the maintenance of the tickets in stack formation there isprovided-a radially movable follower means which consists of aplate 52 swingingly mounted by virtue of arms 53 loosely connected to the transverse shaft 54- 'supported by the sides 31; there-being; employed a spring 55 which encircles the shaft 54- and has one end thereof inengagement with the back 33 as at 56 and the opposite end thereof in engagement with the seg'mentee as at 57. lt has been before 'statedthat the segment 36is movable and this is so because it is attached as'at '58 to "a p'o'rti'on of 'the plate 52. The central portion-'59 of the 'plate SQ -isatlapted'to lie in contact with the innermost ticket of the stack and traverses themagaZine to advance thestatk as'it is dimini'shed by the r'em'oval the ot'itei'm'o'st ticket by virtueof the influence of the spring 55. It isth'erefore t'o he ifind'erstood "that means is rovfde'd for continuously acting on the tickets to lreep the =outermost ticket in engagement with the abutment 50 which will assume the T position shown in Fi'guEZ. In 'o'r'd'erto prevent=the retrograde movement of thefplate- '52 and so asto in'sure a ticket beinghe'ld attheopen- 'in'g, there is-providedatoothed memb'er fiO which is piv'otally connected as=at'-61 =an'd the teeth this 'member 60 react with "a member 62 supported by th'e a'rms '53.

ln "loading the magazine the member 47 which has a hook 63, when move'd to the position shown in full 1 lines in Fig. 6, may

'carried by the intu'rned lower end the have the hoolts'6'3' engage a member 64 carba ck' 33. The bottom member3S h=as alo'n gitudinal slot 48. In one position 'of t-he member l-7 as shown in 'Fi'g. (fifthebOttom member 38 maybe moyetl o'nit-s hingef to an openiposition, and when the m'ember His 'inthelpositi'on 'sh'ownin dotted hnesfithe bottom member will be 'held in its 'c'lo'setl position. The magazine is =loa'ded with the 'tickets by simply moving the bottnm mem- 'ber 38 teen open position It i s tobeneted that the tiel'zetsar'e disposed a fan li keformat-ion due to theconstruction of the parts of the magazine, and it will be apparent that it makes possible the use of a comparatively small outer" casing, such as the casing 30,lthe front 320f which is disposed zit-an 1 angle for the "convenient presentation of the tickets i to the 'opening 49 in the front 32. The opening 4-9 'coincideswith the treatend of*the'magazine 35. Inorder to' a'ct upon each ti'eketasit is a'd'vanced' so that" theshort port ion '22 may'ass'iime a position at an a'ngle "with respect to the long portion El as shown in "Figs. 1 and 2, and in erde'r to prevent the foremost ticket or ti'c'kets'f-from ijeing ejected through f the opening t 9.-the* bottomni'einber 38 is formed with'fan abutinent 50 adjacent the opening &9. The abuemeat s'o and the portion 51 efthe' fronts? combine iii-the ebtai nment of" the 'ie'sults" finst mentioned. In

ri'e'dby the plate '52t'o l'lo'ld th'e'plate from being moved by the spring 55.

From the foregoing it will be I apparent -'that-'there has beendescribe'd a device for folding ordinary stock tickets -uniformly to be used in a second device for present- -'ing them "successirely for their removal one teatime; thatthe re n'oval of'a ticket is accomplished by-{graspin the short portion '22 and by pr'ill'ii'ignpwar'dly*and outwardly thereon, will cause the long portion 21 "to lie due to the fact that its npper end "will engage the under fa'ceof the segment 36 and allowing thereby the ticket to be withdrawn through the opening 49.

In or'der 'to insure the p'ropenfeeding ac- ;tion of the tickets in spite of 'ny of the short 'por ions being fdlded slightly projecting from the side edges of the 10n';. ;-poitions, tl'1erelias"been p'i'o ided the flanges 39 which guide the upper" ends of the folde'd "tickets -'ithile the bottom =rneinb'er 38 g'ui'des'the lower edges bf the tickets, there being 'srrtlic ient space provided betweenthe 'side members 37 to acconn'n'odate the projecting edges of the short portions.-

lt' is t'o be annersteedtl-iat. the invention is not F restricted to thejprecise 5 arrangement of pa'its sho'wn andtl'escribed "as details of "'onstriiction nlay be modified -and" rear ranged without departing from the spirit of the invention, the scope of which is limited only by the terms of the appended claims.

I claim; 1. A ticket dispensing device comprising a magazine in which may be arranged a I multiplicity of tickets in stack formation, relatively adjustable plateseach having a flange, the flanges of said plates providing guides for said tickets. retaining means at one end of the stack which acts on each of the tickets presented thereto to temporarily retain each ticket so that it may be grasped maintain the tickets against lateral displacement, a hingedly connected bottom on which the tickets rest, there being an opening at one end of the magazine; means on the bottom adjacent the opening which acts on each ticket to prevent the same from being ejected through the opening and which causes the ticket to be disposed so that the same may be grasped forits removal through said opening, means moving in a circular path which acts continuously on the back of the stack to present one ticket at a time by said last mentioned means.

3. A ticket dispensing device comprising a magazine for maintaining therein a multiplicity of tickets in stack formation, said magazine comprising a top, arcuate side plates, and an arcuate bottom, there being an opening at one end of said magazine through which one ticket at a time is with drawn; an abutment on said bottom against which the end of each ticket is presented 5 to cause it to be disposed so that it may be grasped. for removal through said opening, and follower means continuously acting on the stack of tickets to feed. one ticket at a time to the abutment.

4:. A ticket dispensing device comprising a magazine for maintaining therein a multi-' plates, and an arcuate bottom, there being an opening at one end of said magazine through which one ticket at a time is withdrawn; an

abutment on said bottom against whichthe end of each ticketis presented to cause it to V be disposed so that it may be grasped for removal of the ticket through said opening, and follower means moving in a curved path and continuously acting on the stack of tickets to feed one ticket at a time to the abutment. I g

5. A ticket dispensing device comprising a magazine for maintaining therein a multiplicity of tickets in stack formation, said magazine comprising a top, arcuate side plates, and an arcuate bottom, there being an opening at one end of said magazine through which one ticket at a time is withdrawn; an

abutment on said bottom against which the end of each ticket is presented to cause it to be disposed so that it may be grasped for removal through said opening, follower means moving in a curved path continuously acting on the stack of tickets to feed one ticket at a time to the abutment, and means for preventingthe retrograde movement of the follower means.

6. A ticket dispensing device comprising a magazine in which may be arranged a multiplicity of tickets in. stack formation, said magazine including means for maintaining the stack of ticketsagainst lateral displacement, retaining means at one end of the stack which acts on each of the tickets presented thereto to temporarily retain each ticket disposed sothat it may be grasped for removal from the retaining means, a pivotally mounted plate disposed. to act on the stack of tickets, means causing saidplate to continuously exert pressure on the stack of tickets to present one ticket at a time to said re- ,ment, retaining means at one end of the stack which acts on each of the tickets presented thereto to temporarily retain each ticket disposed sothat it may be grasped for removal from the retaining means, a pivotally mounted plate disposed to act on the stack of tickets, means causing said plate to continuously exert pressure on the stack of tickets to present one ticket at a time to said retaining means, and a pivotally mounted member having teeth which coact res ectively with a member carried by said p ate preventing the retrograde movement of said plate. I

.- a JOHN M. FERNANDEZ. 

